Elective Spotlight: Portuguese

Portuguese is a global language:

• with approximately 260 million speakers of Portuguese in the world.
• spoken in countries on four continents.
• listed as the sixth most spoken language in the world, the most spoken language in the whole Southern hemisphere and the 5th most “spoken” language on the Internet.
• Portuguese is the official and/or working language of several international organizations, such as the European Union (EU), African Union (AU), UNESCO, Mercosul, etc.

Portuguese Elective Modules offered in UCD

UCD Applied Language Centre

• LANG10670: Portuguese Gen Purp 1
• LANG10690: Portuguese Gen Purp 2